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Jan 18 , 2019

Modernisation, Not Westernisation

Timqet, the Epiphany festival that is just around the corner from Gena, the Ethiopian Christmas, is more traditionally observed, while Genais proving to be quite a different matter in this country. ...

Jan 12 , 2019

Juggling Promises, Wagering The Future

A lawyer, in one of the many law offices tucked inside metal containers around the High Court in Lideta, is busy changing into a clean suit and shirt. He empties miscellaneous articles from the pocke...

Jan 5 , 2019

Tale of Portraits in the City

In the lobby of the main police station in Yeka sub-city in Addis Abeba, the portrait of the former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been removed from its position on the wall and placed on the floor,...

Dec 29 , 2018

Inept Officialdom Lulls ‘Free-for-all’ Law and Order

In the foothills of Gulele, the ancient forested mountain that towers over the northern parts of Addis Abeba, a new settlement has sprouted that is aptly named Addis Gebeya, or new market. It is a cav...

Dec 25 , 2018

The Chinese Compromise

It is unlikely that the bald and polished scalp bobbing on the neck of a businessman, past his middle-age, will ever sprout follicles to bud any hair. But this biological detail is of little concer...

Dec 19 , 2018

What Eritrea Can Learn by Looking Southward

If one is planning to bring along a credit or debit card to use anywhere in Eritrea, forbear the thought! “We tell our guests to bring hard currency, in cash, when we book their stay,” says the...

Dec 10 , 2018

Asmera: The Addis Abeba that Never Was, for the Better

The old guard, now in their sixties and seventies, lumber into the lobby of the Embasoira Hotel in Asmera to meet and chat. Some are educated in selective universities like the University of Michigan...

Dec 5 , 2018

Hidar SItaten : Thrives, but with Implications

There could hardly be any debate that the morning commute of passengers in a minicab from Lage Tafo to Mexico Square can be a gruelling journey. The rattle of the old vehicles, the loud clamours, crow...

Nov 27 , 2018

Tolerance, Charity Sustains Beggars, While Gov't Overlooks

The beggar is a venerated species in Ethiopia. The public space is open and available to the mendicant and the drifter alike without bias. There are few, if any, scriptures of the law that forbids, fo...

Modernity Eludes the Private Sector

A man accompanied by a group of three women shuffles to the reception desk of a dentist's office on Churchill Road holding a damp soft-tissue paper in his fist. “He just knocked out one of his te...


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